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Personal Firewalls

Personal Firewalls are those firewalls that are installed and run on individual PCs. A personal firewall differs from a conventional firewall in that there is no hardware separation between the firewall software on the user's PC and the user's application software. A personal firewall will not usually protect any more than the PC it is connected to, unless other PCs are sharing Internet connectivity via the protected PC.

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Personal Firewalls